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1? The goblet of rhinoceros horn was to be drained, as a penalty, by any one offending at the feast against the rules of propriety ; but here there was no occasion for it. ODE I0. THE SACRIFICIAL ODES OF KAU. 335 time was yet dark. When the time was clearly bright, He thereupon donned his grand armour. We have been favoured to receive What the martial king accomplished. To deal aright with what we have inherited, We have to be sincere imitators of thy course, (O king). Ope 9. THe Hwan. CELEBRATING THE MERIT AND SUCCESS OF KING wt. According to a statement in the 30 Awan, this piece also was sung in connexion with the dance of WQ. The Preface says it was used in declarations of war, and in sacrificing to God and the Father of War. Perhaps it came to be used on such occasions; but we must refer it in the first place to the reign of king AAang. : There is peace throughout our myriad regions. There has been a succession of plentiful years :— Heaven does not weary in its favour. The martial king Wd Maintained (the confidence of) his officers, And employed them all over the kingdom, So securing the establishment of his family. Oh! glorious was he in the sight of Heaven, Which kinged him in the room (of Shang). Ope 10. Tue LAL. CELEBRATING THE PRAISE OF KING WAN. This is the only account of the piece that can be given from itself. The 30 Awan, however, refers it to the dance of king WA; and the Preface says it contains the words with which Wa accompanied his grant of fiefs and appanages in the ancestral temple to his principal followers. King Wa&n laboured earnestly :—Right is it we should have received (the kingdom). We will diffuse (his virtue), ever cherishing the thought of 336 THE SHIH KING. DECADE II. rf. him; Henceforth we will seek only the settlement (of the kingdom). It was he through whom came the appointment of Kau. Oh! let us ever cherish the thought of him. Ove 11. Tue Pan. CELEBRATING THE GREATNESS OF KAU, AND ITS FIRM POSSESSION OF THE KINGDOM, AS SEEN IN THE PROGRESSES OF ITS REIGNING SOVE- REIGN. In the eighth piece of the first decade we have an ode akin to this, relating a tentative progress of king WA, to test the acceptance of his sovereignty. This is of a later date, and should be referred, probably, to the reign of king Aang, when the dynasty was fully acknowledged. Some critics, however, make it, like the three preceding, a portion of what was sung at the Wa dance. Oh! great now is Kau. We ascend the high hills, Both those that are long and narrow, and the lofty mountains. Yes, and (we travel) along the regulated Ho, All under the sky, Assembling those who now respond to me. Thus it is that the appointment belongs to Adu. Il]. Tue Praise Opes or Lt.
2Oh! great now is Kau. We ascend the high hills, Both those that are long and narrow, and the lofty mountains. Yes, and (we travel) along the regulated Ho, All under the sky, Assembling those who now respond to me. Thus it is that the appointment belongs to Adu. Il]. Tue Praise Opes or Lt. Ir is not according to the truth of things to class the Sung of La among the sacrificial odes, and I do not call them such. ( Hsf says:—‘ King Aang, because of the great services rendered by the duke of Adu, granted to Po-Ain, (the duke’s eldest son, and first marquis of Lf), the privilege of using the royal ceremonies and music, in consequence of which Lf had its Sung, which were sung to the music in its ancestral temple. Afterwards, they made in LQ other odes in praise of their rulers, ODE 3. THE PRAISE ODES OF LO. 337 which they also called Sung.’ In this way it is endeavoured to account for there being such pieces in this part of the Shih as the four in this division of it. Confucius, it is thought, found them in Lf, bearing the name of Sung, and so he classed them with the true sacrificial odes, bearing that designation. If we were to admit, contrary to the evidence in the case, that the Shih was compiled by Confucius, this explanation of the place of the Sung of LQ in this Part would not be complimentary to his discrimination. Whether such a privilege as Af states was really granted to the first marquis of Lf, is a point very much controverted. Many contend that the royal ceremonies were usurped in the state, in the time of duke Hs? (s.c. 6g9 to 627). But if this should be conceded, it would not affect the application to the odes in this division of the name of Sung. They are totally unlike the Sung of Shang and of Kau. It has often been asked why there are no Fang of Lf in the first Part of the Shih. The pieces here are really the Fang of LQ, and may be compared especially with the Fang of Pin. LO was one of the states in the east, having its capital in KAtfau, which is still the name of a district in the department of Yen-A4u, Shan-tung. According to Kd, king Khang invested the duke of Xéu’s eldest son with the territory. According to Sze-ma Khien, the duke of Kau was himself appointed marquis of LQ; but being unable to go there in consequence of his duties at the royal court, he sent his son instead. After the expiration of his regency, the territory was largely augmented, but he still remained in K4u. I pass over the first two odes, which have no claim to a place among ‘sacred texts.’ And only in one stanza of the third is there the expression of a religious sentiment. I give it entire, however. Ope 8. Tue Puan Suut. IN PRAISE OF SOME MARQUIS OF 10, CELEBRATING HIS INTEREST IN THE STATE COLLEGE, WHICH HE HAD, PROBABLY, REPAIRED, TESTI- FYING HIS VIRTUES, AND AUSPICING FOR HIM A COMPLETE TRIUMPH OVER THE TRIBES OF THE HWAI, WHICH WOULD BE CELEBRATED IN THE COLLEGE.
3Ope 8. Tue Puan Suut. IN PRAISE OF SOME MARQUIS OF 10, CELEBRATING HIS INTEREST IN THE STATE COLLEGE, WHICH HE HAD, PROBABLY, REPAIRED, TESTI- FYING HIS VIRTUES, AND AUSPICING FOR HIM A COMPLETE TRIUMPH OVER THE TRIBES OF THE HWAI, WHICH WOULD BE CELEBRATED IN THE COLLEGE. The marquis here celebrated was, probably, Shan, or ‘duke Hsi,’ mentioned above. The immediate occasion of its composition CJ z 338 THE SHIH KING. ODE 3. must have been some opening or inauguration service in connexion with the repair of the college. 1. Pleasant is the semicircular water!, And we gather the cress about it. The marquis of Lf is coming to it, And we see his dragon-figured banner. His banner waves in the wind, And the bells of his horses tinkle harmoniously. Small and great, All follow the prince in his progress to it. 2. Pleasant is the semicircular water, And we gather the pondweed in it. The marquis of Lf has come to it, With his horses so stately. His horses are grand; His fame is brilliant. Blandly he looks and smiles ; Without any impatience he delivers his instructions. 3. Pleasant is the semicircular water, And we gather the mallows about it. The marquis of La has come to it, And in the college he is drinking. He is drinking the good spirits. May there be T It is said in the tenth ode of the first decade of the Major Odes _ of the Kingdom, that king W4 in his capital of H4o built ‘his hall with its circlet of water.’ That was the royal college built in the middle of a circle of water; each state had its grand college with a semicircular pool in front of it, such as may now be seen in front of . the temples of Confucius in the metropolitan cities of the provinces. It is not easy to describe all the purposes which the building served. In this piece the marquis of LQ appears feasting in it, delivering instructions, taking counsel with his ministers, and receiving the spoils and prisoners of war. The Li Ai, VIII, ii, 7, refers to sacrifices to H4n-#i in connexion with the college of Lf. There the officers of the state in autumn learned ceremonies ; in winter, literary studies; in spring and summer, the use of arms; and in autumn and winter, dancing. There were celebrated trials of archery; there the aged were feasted; there the princes held council with their ministers, The college was in the western suburb of each capital. ODE 3. THE PRAISE ODES oF LO. 339 given to him such old age as is seldom enjoyed! May he accord with the grand ways, So subduing to himself all the people! 4. Very admirable is the marquis of La, Reverently displaying his virtue, And reverently watching over his deportment, The pattern of the people. With great qualities, both civil and martial, Bril liantly he affects his meritorious ancestors. In everything entirely filial, He seeks the blessing that is sure to follow.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
Romanised transliteration as printed by the translator, not the original script. This is what we hold.
1? The goblet of rhinoceros horn was to be drained, as a penalty, by any one offending at the feast against the rules of propriety ; but here there was no occasion for it. ODE I0. THE SACRIFICIAL ODES OF KAU. 335 time was yet dark. When the time was clearly bright, He thereupon donned his grand armour. We have been favoured to receive What the martial king accomplished. To deal aright with what we have inherited, We have to be sincere imitators of thy course, (O king). Ope 9. THe Hwan. CELEBRATING THE MERIT AND SUCCESS OF KING wt. According to a statement in the 30 Awan, this piece also was sung in connexion with the dance of WQ. The Preface says it was used in declarations of war, and in sacrificing to God and the Father of War. Perhaps it came to be used on such occasions; but we must refer it in the first place to the reign of king AAang. : There is peace throughout our myriad regions. There has been a succession of plentiful years :— Heaven does not weary in its favour. The martial king Wd Maintained (the confidence of) his officers, And employed them all over the kingdom, So securing the establishment of his family. Oh! glorious was he in the sight of Heaven, Which kinged him in the room (of Shang). Ope 10. Tue LAL. CELEBRATING THE PRAISE OF KING WAN. This is the only account of the piece that can be given from itself. The 30 Awan, however, refers it to the dance of king WA; and the Preface says it contains the words with which Wa accompanied his grant of fiefs and appanages in the ancestral temple to his principal followers. King Wa&n laboured earnestly :—Right is it we should have received (the kingdom). We will diffuse (his virtue), ever cherishing the thought of 336 THE SHIH KING. DECADE II. rf. him; Henceforth we will seek only the settlement (of the kingdom). It was he through whom came the appointment of Kau. Oh! let us ever cherish the thought of him. Ove 11. Tue Pan. CELEBRATING THE GREATNESS OF KAU, AND ITS FIRM POSSESSION OF THE KINGDOM, AS SEEN IN THE PROGRESSES OF ITS REIGNING SOVE- REIGN. In the eighth piece of the first decade we have an ode akin to this, relating a tentative progress of king WA, to test the acceptance of his sovereignty. This is of a later date, and should be referred, probably, to the reign of king Aang, when the dynasty was fully acknowledged. Some critics, however, make it, like the three preceding, a portion of what was sung at the Wa dance. Oh! great now is Kau. We ascend the high hills, Both those that are long and narrow, and the lofty mountains. Yes, and (we travel) along the regulated Ho, All under the sky, Assembling those who now respond to me. Thus it is that the appointment belongs to Adu. Il]. Tue Praise Opes or Lt.
2Oh! great now is Kau. We ascend the high hills, Both those that are long and narrow, and the lofty mountains. Yes, and (we travel) along the regulated Ho, All under the sky, Assembling those who now respond to me. Thus it is that the appointment belongs to Adu. Il]. Tue Praise Opes or Lt. Ir is not according to the truth of things to class the Sung of La among the sacrificial odes, and I do not call them such. ( Hsf says:—‘ King Aang, because of the great services rendered by the duke of Adu, granted to Po-Ain, (the duke’s eldest son, and first marquis of Lf), the privilege of using the royal ceremonies and music, in consequence of which Lf had its Sung, which were sung to the music in its ancestral temple. Afterwards, they made in LQ other odes in praise of their rulers, ODE 3. THE PRAISE ODES OF LO. 337 which they also called Sung.’ In this way it is endeavoured to account for there being such pieces in this part of the Shih as the four in this division of it. Confucius, it is thought, found them in Lf, bearing the name of Sung, and so he classed them with the true sacrificial odes, bearing that designation. If we were to admit, contrary to the evidence in the case, that the Shih was compiled by Confucius, this explanation of the place of the Sung of LQ in this Part would not be complimentary to his discrimination. Whether such a privilege as Af states was really granted to the first marquis of Lf, is a point very much controverted. Many contend that the royal ceremonies were usurped in the state, in the time of duke Hs? (s.c. 6g9 to 627). But if this should be conceded, it would not affect the application to the odes in this division of the name of Sung. They are totally unlike the Sung of Shang and of Kau. It has often been asked why there are no Fang of Lf in the first Part of the Shih. The pieces here are really the Fang of LQ, and may be compared especially with the Fang of Pin. LO was one of the states in the east, having its capital in KAtfau, which is still the name of a district in the department of Yen-A4u, Shan-tung. According to Kd, king Khang invested the duke of Xéu’s eldest son with the territory. According to Sze-ma Khien, the duke of Kau was himself appointed marquis of LQ; but being unable to go there in consequence of his duties at the royal court, he sent his son instead. After the expiration of his regency, the territory was largely augmented, but he still remained in K4u. I pass over the first two odes, which have no claim to a place among ‘sacred texts.’ And only in one stanza of the third is there the expression of a religious sentiment. I give it entire, however. Ope 8. Tue Puan Suut. IN PRAISE OF SOME MARQUIS OF 10, CELEBRATING HIS INTEREST IN THE STATE COLLEGE, WHICH HE HAD, PROBABLY, REPAIRED, TESTI- FYING HIS VIRTUES, AND AUSPICING FOR HIM A COMPLETE TRIUMPH OVER THE TRIBES OF THE HWAI, WHICH WOULD BE CELEBRATED IN THE COLLEGE.
3Ope 8. Tue Puan Suut. IN PRAISE OF SOME MARQUIS OF 10, CELEBRATING HIS INTEREST IN THE STATE COLLEGE, WHICH HE HAD, PROBABLY, REPAIRED, TESTI- FYING HIS VIRTUES, AND AUSPICING FOR HIM A COMPLETE TRIUMPH OVER THE TRIBES OF THE HWAI, WHICH WOULD BE CELEBRATED IN THE COLLEGE. The marquis here celebrated was, probably, Shan, or ‘duke Hsi,’ mentioned above. The immediate occasion of its composition CJ z 338 THE SHIH KING. ODE 3. must have been some opening or inauguration service in connexion with the repair of the college. 1. Pleasant is the semicircular water!, And we gather the cress about it. The marquis of Lf is coming to it, And we see his dragon-figured banner. His banner waves in the wind, And the bells of his horses tinkle harmoniously. Small and great, All follow the prince in his progress to it. 2. Pleasant is the semicircular water, And we gather the pondweed in it. The marquis of Lf has come to it, With his horses so stately. His horses are grand; His fame is brilliant. Blandly he looks and smiles ; Without any impatience he delivers his instructions. 3. Pleasant is the semicircular water, And we gather the mallows about it. The marquis of La has come to it, And in the college he is drinking. He is drinking the good spirits. May there be T It is said in the tenth ode of the first decade of the Major Odes _ of the Kingdom, that king W4 in his capital of H4o built ‘his hall with its circlet of water.’ That was the royal college built in the middle of a circle of water; each state had its grand college with a semicircular pool in front of it, such as may now be seen in front of . the temples of Confucius in the metropolitan cities of the provinces. It is not easy to describe all the purposes which the building served. In this piece the marquis of LQ appears feasting in it, delivering instructions, taking counsel with his ministers, and receiving the spoils and prisoners of war. The Li Ai, VIII, ii, 7, refers to sacrifices to H4n-#i in connexion with the college of Lf. There the officers of the state in autumn learned ceremonies ; in winter, literary studies; in spring and summer, the use of arms; and in autumn and winter, dancing. There were celebrated trials of archery; there the aged were feasted; there the princes held council with their ministers, The college was in the western suburb of each capital. ODE 3. THE PRAISE ODES oF LO. 339 given to him such old age as is seldom enjoyed! May he accord with the grand ways, So subduing to himself all the people! 4. Very admirable is the marquis of La, Reverently displaying his virtue, And reverently watching over his deportment, The pattern of the people. With great qualities, both civil and martial, Bril liantly he affects his meritorious ancestors. In everything entirely filial, He seeks the blessing that is sure to follow.
The source text as printed, transcribed diplomatically. Where the source language uses a non-Latin script that reaches us only through a Victorian romanisation, this layer is labelled transliteration, because that is what we hold.
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